Strange behaviour with GregorianCalendar

Question

I just encountered a strange behaviour with the GregorianCalendar class, and I was wondering if I really was doing something bad.

This only appends when the initiali

Answer 1

Maybe setLenient(boolean lenient) will sort it out for you. I get an exception when I run the code below.

If not, Joda is a better answer.

import java.util.Calendar;

public class CalTest
{
    public static void main(String[] args)
    {
        // today is 2010/05/31
        Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();
        cal.setLenient(false);

        cal.set(Calendar.YEAR, 2010);
        cal.set(Calendar.MONTH, 1); // FEBRUARY

        cal.set(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH, cal.getActualMaximum(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH));
        cal.set(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY, cal.getActualMaximum(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY));
        cal.set(Calendar.MINUTE, cal.getActualMaximum(Calendar.MINUTE));
        cal.set(Calendar.SECOND, cal.getActualMaximum(Calendar.SECOND));
        cal.set(Calendar.MILLISECOND, cal.getActualMaximum(Calendar.MILLISECOND));

        System.out.println(cal.getTime());
    }
}